netdev - Re: Comments requested: Long options and MD5 options

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Message-Id: <20080618.163651.50869440.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:36:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	agl@...erialviolet.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Comments requested: Long options and MD5 options

From: "Adam Langley" <agl@...erialviolet.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:24:33 -0700

> > The retransmit timeout timer has to fire eventually, and when
> > that happens we should clear all of our SACK state.
> 
> Ok, that's good at least. There were other variables in my test that could have
> screwed that up.
> 
> Attached is a patch which pulls the options logic together into a single
> function of SYN/SYNACK and one for established. At the moment, it chooses
> SACK over timestamps for MD5 connections, but it's very easy to change. (And
> that's the point of this patch - the logic isn't spread out)
> 
> Not signed off, because I want to do more testing, and to sleep on it first,
> but pretty close to final.

Thanks for doing this work, I'll have a closer look at this
patch later this evening.
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